Living with a children's author isn't as easy as it looks!

When I was first adopted, I resisted getting dressed. I even tried to eat my coat!

But then I learned. Mom dresses me when we do therapy work at the veteran’s home or the library.

It makes people smile and it also helps me not to leave too many furs on them when they cuddle with me.

Plus it keeps me warm so I don’t shiver.

I like dressing up. It usually means something fun is about to happen.

In between dressing me and posting me, Mom was busy dressing up one of her stories. The simple beginning, middle, and end needed a fancy title, some colorful words, something sweet to make people smile,

a sassy character,

and some warmth and emotion.

Mom calls dressing up her stories revising. She used to resist revising – I mean, she didn’t try to eat her coat or anything, but she fought making changes to dress things up. Now she likes revising. It usually means something fun is about to happen. At least we HOPE so!

Cupcake your fabulous cupcake shirt looks just great!!! and I agree some stories need a dress up to make them “hot” for the readers… and specially in winter we rather read warm dressed stories than nekked ones :o)

Our collars are our “dresses” over at TwoOrangePups, and when Mum grabs them and places them around our wiggling necks, we know it’s time for fun – maybe a run! Mum doesn’t like the revising type of dressing, though, but maybe if she thinks like your Mom, Cupcake, she’ll begin to like it more & do a better job each time. And you look so lovely, Cupcake; if we had dresses like yours, maybe we’d dress up more, too.

Thanks, P. Archie is brave going out in the cold with no sweater on. I wore a sweater UNDER my jacket today because of the cold. Now Mom is threatening to put boots on me because my feet were burning from the rock salt outside. GAH!

Cupcake, I am glad you like dressing up, as I think your Mom might do that to you either way. After this weekend, my Mom is coming around to my way of thinking. I really don’t care if she says, “All that work for nothing.” It was for “something” if she learned her lesson, now wasn’t it? Does your Mom experience that in her story telling?
*nose nudges*

Way to rock the pooch-way, Cupcake-you’re just adorable in all those outfits. Tell your mom the way to good stories is paved with loads of revisions. It’s all part of the process and good for the soul (plus it makes editors happy) 🙂

Your mom is so smart (and you like damn cute in those clothes too.) For me the first bit of the writing process is just getting the bulk of the story out there. Characters, plot, settings, the revising is where the really good stuff comes in. 🙂

Cupcake, you brighten my day! And I love when you get dressed up, It never fails to make my mom smile smile and smile. Me…I am hoping she doesn’t get any ideas! I’d eat the dress and hers too if she did!

You have an outfit for every occasion, Cupcake and you look purrfect in each one of them, I especially like the black and why…because then you look kind of me 😀 Double Pawkiss for a wonderful Sunday and hopefully not so much snow anymore 🙂 ❤

My Cod…I love to see you dressed up Cupcake…you look so good and so proud of yourself. After having a harness on for awhile I understand your happiness. Mom is always so delighted to see you dressed up. You are a little ray of sunshine my friend.